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The conclusions of the quest for the historical Jesus, which casts the majority of Christ’s life as a myth, are a stark contrast to the orthodox view of Christ as presented in the Bible. Pate demonstrates that a critical analysis of the gospel text along with historical and cultural methods of investigation actually point toward an orthodox view of Christ. This work argues that the canonical...

Irenaeus set the church on a path that led to the victory of orthodoxy over alternate expressions of Jesus, culminating in the official approval of the four gospels and the apostolic tradition by Athanasius, the fourth-century champion of orthodoxy. Such a development was aided by the Roman emperor Constantine, whose conversion to Christianity in AD 313 paved the way for the legalizing of Christianity. Using Christianity as the unifying principle for his empire, Constantine convened the bishops of
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